A Jackson Hole native, Ariel Mann is one of a lucky few who can claim she was raised in this valley. She graduated from Colorado College in 2004 with a B.A. in Psychology. After traveling extensively around the globe, including living abroad in Spain and attending the University of Granada and the University of Barcelona, she returned to this incredible valley.

Ariel began "flirting" with yoga in 2001....practicing occasionally, when injured, or on a day "off" from training for running events. It wasn't until June of 2010 when a friend convinced Ariel to try a hot yoga class at Inversion that her love affair with the practice of yoga began...and it has been hot and steamy virtually everyday since. In a class last fall, Ariel decided she wanted to be a yoga teacher. So, she did some research after class, and by the end of the same day was signed up for a teacher training in Maui. She completed her 200-hour teacher training at Maui Yoga Shala with Nadia Toraman.

When not in the yoga studio, Ariel is busy running her comprehensive health and wellness business, JH Wellness. In addition to teaching yoga, she offers healthy cooking classes, personal training, private chef services, catering, wellness programs for businesses, and nutrition, sport and personal coaching.

Ariel is also an athlete in every season. Her recreational hobbies include hiking, mountain biking, running (everything from trail tunning to marathons to 5Ks, and just about everything in between), snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, volleyball, soccer, stand up paddling, swimming, yoga, rafting and weight-lifting.

Ariel plugs these links: www.jhwellnessatwork.com, www.yourcosmiccafe.com and www.bellfitness.net